Josh Jackson class of 2016: The next great basketball player out of Detroit
Josh Jackson - Detroit Consortium
Shooting guard
Detroit, Michigan
Consortium College Prep
AAU: The Family
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Josh-Jackson-140396
- Ht:6'5"
- Wt:180 lbs
- Class:2016 (High School)
Josh Jackson out of Consortium HS in Detroit, class of 2016, is going to be the most hotly contested Bball prodigy out of Michigan since? I don't know the answer to this question, he is only in 9th grade, but I can't remember a 9th grader this talented and polished in a long long time.
I've posted before, I was fortunate enough to see Mark Macon as a 9th grader at Saginaw Buena Vista, and thought his talent level was jaw dropping. I watch Josh Jackson play basketball and I see jaw dropping talent.
I saw Chris Webber as a 9th grade, Shane Battier as a 9th grader and this kid is right up there with them.
This is going to be a recruiting battle you can be sure the Kentucky's and North Carolina's will be involved in
The kid would be perfect in Coach Beilein's offense. Smooth as silk, make the game look easy, nice mid range game, superior handle, you can tell he is just toying with some of the competition. Hell, he'd be great in any offense, even Wisconsin.
Jackson recently put up 23 in a close loss to Romulus (#2 in Class A), and followed that up with a 30 point effort in a win against 13-2 L'Anse Creuse North.
“Can you name 10 players better than him in the state? He’s the top five or 10 in the state, period, regardless of Class.”
-- Romulus coach Nate Oats talking about Detroit Consortium freshman Joshua Jackson. Jackson scored 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss to Romulus.
I will post a couple video's in the first post of Josh Jackson doing his thing.
Try to keep in mind: 9th grader
February 14th, 2013 at 9:33 PM ^
February 15th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
ERMAHGERD - Yes please
February 14th, 2013 at 4:18 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^
I wish I was that good ever. I'd even take half as good.
February 14th, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:24 PM ^
anyone who plays for the AAU team The Family I will never challenge to any sort of basketbal/athletic competition...dudes are scary good
February 14th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 8:08 PM ^
How many timeouts did he call?
/s
too soon?
February 15th, 2013 at 7:36 AM ^
Webber went to Country Day.
On second thought, you're probably just saying you saw DCD play at Saginaw Nouvel, since Macon also didn't plat "at Heritage." In that case, nothing to see here...
February 14th, 2013 at 3:30 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:48 PM ^
Except not really at all. Their complexions aren't even that similar.
This reminded me of a classic mgoblog thread where some poster said (if I recall correctly) that Devin Gardner and Roy Manning looked like twins...
Edit: And here we have it:
February 14th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
Thanks for linking - that thread is hillarious and I missed it way back when. Moleskyn is still with us and a solid contributor, I'm glad the unanimous -60 downvoting didn't scare him away. Let's just hope he's never witness to a crime or the sketch artist will have a tough go of it.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:49 PM ^
February 15th, 2013 at 7:09 AM ^
Dude looks like Keyshawn Johnson
February 14th, 2013 at 3:30 PM ^
Reminds me of C-Webb. Hopefully we get him and things end a whole lot differently.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:09 PM ^
Webber was a big guy with a power game. Jackson has a lot of great moves, is very fast, and can shoot from outside. I don't see any similarities at all.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:32 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^
I wonder how old he is. He sure doesn't look like a freshman.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:37 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
He still recruits them, he just doesn't offer them.
Luke Kennard is a 2015 kid and the coaches have been recruiting him since last year.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:09 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 6:41 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 6:53 PM ^
they are aware of good players as early as junior high school. they recruit and network with these players very early. if you do not , you will really have no chance.
he does not make commitable offers until they are juniors.
other coaches offer very early crazy stuff like 12 years old, etc
February 14th, 2013 at 3:37 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:41 PM ^
Reminds me of Spike Albrecht.
February 14th, 2013 at 3:58 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 4:01 PM ^
Impossible to miss, really...
February 14th, 2013 at 4:11 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 6:25 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 3:50 PM ^
And then there is this Josh Jackson, class of 2016:
Son of Fred, brother of Jeremy.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 6:55 PM ^
tough stretch currently.
is this jackson trying his luck as QB?
February 14th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
Its pretty amazing to watch these young kids with such great skill and the knowledge that they can basically take over a game whenever they so desire. Yet it seems like this kid enjoys sharing the rock and giving it up as much as getting it, at least from the short clips you posted.
February 14th, 2013 at 4:01 PM ^
Oh wait...different Josh Jackson
February 14th, 2013 at 5:09 PM ^
If he's half as good at basketball as he was in The Mighty Ducks...
February 14th, 2013 at 5:57 PM ^
thats just ridicolous.
February 15th, 2013 at 12:37 PM ^
I like the fact you signed up for your first post to be about Josh Jackson. You nicely summed up my thoughts in three words
February 14th, 2013 at 6:31 PM ^
I hadn't heard of this kid until now but he seems like a player. Consortium is a Class C school and appears to be on a collision course with Flint Beecher for the state title. Beecher is the defending champs, #1 in Class C and only loss (after blowing 18 pt lead) is to Class A #1 Detroit Pershing.
February 15th, 2013 at 9:23 AM ^
I go to State finals every yr so it would be cool if Consortium can make it that far( even though I hate Michael Talley).. I keep waiting for the next Chris Webber but so far have been let down.. Nix was the biggest disappointment ive ever seen ( Fatboy had 4 pts). Have no idea how the fuck he was Mr. Michigan..Would be real cool if Young, Walton, and Jackson all made it to finals this year... Also, when are the finals coming back to Crisler now that we have the renovations?
February 15th, 2013 at 12:35 PM ^
Would be awesome if Consortium met Beecher for the Class C title. I hadn't thought of that matchup, but would definitely have to set the DVR for it.
February 14th, 2013 at 8:12 PM ^
February 14th, 2013 at 10:56 PM ^
do you think coach b would make him play the 4?
February 14th, 2013 at 10:13 PM ^
Looks like he has Jamal Crawford type handle
February 14th, 2013 at 11:39 PM ^
of the playoffs during his senior year. We were doing our little layup drill warmups, then looked down the court and watched their layup drills, which were a series of alley oop slams. We were beaten before the tipoff and lost by more than 50...
I never fully realized the disparity of basketball talent until that night.
February 15th, 2013 at 12:58 PM ^
Terry Mills was Mr. Basketball that season and I am pretty sure Romulus won the Class A state title.
Mills was Mr. Basketball but WOTS was Derrick Coleman (Detroit Northern), and 4th in the Mr. Basketball voting that year was a better player than Mills, and Coleman probably was. Both had nice college and NBA careers but Coleman could have been a HOF'er had he been properly motivated.
4 of the 10 in Mr. Basketball voting in 1986 ended up playing in the NBA.
http://www.peschstats.com/MrBasketball.htm
1985-86 Mr Basketball |
College |
NBA |
1) TERRY MILLS, ROMULUS | Michigan | yes |
2) Anthony Pendleton, Flint Northwestern | Iowa/USC | |
3) Willie Burton, Detroit St. Martin dePorres | Minnesota | yes |
4) Derrick Coleman, Detroit Northern | Syracuse | yes |
5) Nathan Buntin, Detroit Murray-Wright | Missouri | |
6) Bill Wood, Saginaw Valley Lutheran | don't know | |
7) Steve Scheffler, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern | Purdue | yes |
8) Todd Bayle, Walkerville | don't know | |
9) Leonard Thomas, Mt. Clemens | don't know | |
10) Tarence Wheeler, Detroit Southwestern | don't know |
February 14th, 2013 at 11:53 PM ^
February 15th, 2013 at 3:54 AM ^
Wow. He is actually really graceful looking with the ball, too...if that makes any sense. Usually a kid that is that tall at such a young age is not as coordinated or graceful. This kid is going to be AMAZING by the time he graduates high school.